Posts Tagged ‘star’
From 1978: Unbelievable Japanese “Star Wars” TV spot for “sea chicken”
Star Wars has always been popular in Japan, so seeing Luke Skywalker et al.

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From 1978: Unbelievable Japanese “Star Wars” TV spot for “sea chicken”
Star Wars Play-Doh: May the Force be pliable and starchy smelling
This Star Wars Play-Doh playset is for ages three AND UP – you’re all part of “and up” unless you’re a really smart baby who reads tech blogs for some reason. If you are such a baby, please apply for an internship. We’ll take anybody – anybody – who can appeal to toddlers

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Star Wars Play-Doh: May the Force be pliable and starchy smelling
Hello, Moshi: a voice controlled alarm clock
I’ve been wondering how long it’ll be before we start talking to all our appliances and gadgets, just like the gang on Star Trek talks to their computers. Typing, pressing buttons, waving wands around in the air : it’s all so inefficient! We should be able to simply speak to our gadgets to have them do our bidding.

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Hello, Moshi: a voice controlled alarm clock
Conan O’Brien, NBC reach deal: Conan leaves Tonight Show with $45 million, can start a new show later this year
Game over, friends. NBC just released a statement saying it had reached a deal with Conan O’Brien that sees him bumped off The Tonight Show and bumped into a large sack of money worth $45 million. Of that $45 million, Conan will keep $33 million, the rest of which will go to his 200+ person staff as severance

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Conan O’Brien, NBC reach deal: Conan leaves Tonight Show with $45 million, can start a new show later this year
Live! Our interview with Casey Hudson, Lead Programmer for Bioware’s Mass Effect 2
Watch live streaming video from crunchgear at livestream.com Watch live as we interview Casey Hudson, Lead Programmer for Mass Effect 2 .
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Live! Our interview with Casey Hudson, Lead Programmer for Bioware’s Mass Effect 2
Here’s Earth, but with Saturn-like rings
Oh man. Imagine if the Earth had rings like Saturn

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Here’s Earth, but with Saturn-like rings
CrunchDeals: Left 4 Dead 2 for $28 on PC, $35 on Xbox 360
Zombies. Scary as hell, my main man

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Live demo of Toshiba voice translation software
Boy howdy could I use this thing at CEATEC today.

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Live demo of Toshiba voice translation software
Sony Flexible OLED display on display at CEATEC
Sony, and just about everyone else, has been fooling around with OLEDs for quite some time, and they’re starting to come up with some pretty clever applications of the technology. Flexible OLEDs have been in the news this year, and Sony’s getting into that game, too.

Postal worker in Minnesota steals 16,000 Best Buy Reward Zone certificates
A postal service supervisor working at a Minneapolis mail distribution center “has admitted taking nearly 16,000 Best Buy reward certificates and using them to buy almost $200,000 in merchandise” between June 2007 and October 2008, according to the Star Tribune . Police found 371 items in the home of Douglas A

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Postal worker in Minnesota steals 16,000 Best Buy Reward Zone certificates